Hostname: page-component-cb9f654ff-k7rjm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-08-02T23:09:52.070Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Old Age Mental Disorders in Newcastle upon Tyne

Part II: A Study of Possible Social and Medical Causes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. W. K. Kay ,
P. Beamish  and
Martin Roth
D. W. K. Kay
Affiliation:
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne
P. Beamish
Affiliation:
Newcastle Regional Hospital Board, Newcastle upon Tyne
Martin Roth
Affiliation:
Royal Victoria Infirmary and University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In a previous paper (Kay, Beamish and Roth, 1963) we studied the prevalence of various kinds of psychiatric disorder in a random sample of old people living at home in Newcastle upon Tyne. During the interviews, special attention was paid to the collection of social data. For, as Townsend (1957a) pointed out, old age is an epoch of diminishing social contacts and domestic support, and isolated old people make disproportionately heavy demands on the institutions of the Health and Welfare Services. By comparing the medical status and social circumstances of subjects with organic brain syndromes, those with functional disorders, and those without psychiatric abnormality, we have attempted to explore further the relative importance of these factors in the two main groups of mental disorders in old age.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 468 , September 1964 , pp. 668 - 682
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Brodman, K., Mittelmann, B., Wechsler, D., Weider, A., and Wolff, H. G. (1947). “The relation of personality disturbances to duration of convalescence from acute respiratory infections.” Psychosom. Med., 9, 37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, F. (1961). “Depression and childhood bereavement.” J. Ment. Sci., 107, 754–777.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Busse, E. W., and Dovenmeuhle, R. H. (1960). “Neurotic symptoms and predisposition in ageing people.” J. Amer. Geriat. Soc., 8, 3228–336.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cosin, L. Z., et al. (1957). “Persistent senile confusion. Study of 50 consecutive cases.” Internal. J. soc. Psychiat., 3, 195–202.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kaplan, B., Reed, R. B., and Richardson, W. (1956). “A comparison of the incidence of hospitalized and non-hospitalized cases of psychosis in two communities.” Amer. Soc. Rev., 21, 472–479.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kay, D. W. K., and Roth, M. (1955). “Physical accompaniments of mental disorder in old age.” Lancet, ii, 740–745.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kay, D. W. K. and Hopkins, B. (1955). “Affective disorders arising in the senium. I. Their association with organic cerebral degeneration.” J. Ment. Sci., 101, 302–316.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kay, D. W. K., Beamish, P., and Roth, M. (1963). “Old age mental disorders in Newcastle upon Tyne. Part I: A study of social and medical causes in a random sample of 297 old people.” Brit. J. Psychiat., 110, 146–158.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kay, D. W. K. (1962). “Outcome and cause of death in mental disorders of old age: A long-term follow-up of functional and organic psychoses.” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 38, 249–276.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kutner, B., Fanshel, D., Togo, A. M., and Langner, T. S. (1956). Five Hundred over Sixty, A Community Survey on Ageing. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.Google Scholar
Lovett Doust, J. W. (1952). “Psychiatric aspects of somatic immunity: Differential evidence of physical diseases in histories of psychiatric patients.” Brit. J. Soc. Med., 6, 49.Google Scholar
Post, F. (1958). “Social factors in old age psychiatry.” Geriatrics, 13, 567–580.Google Scholar
Registrar-General (1956). Quoted by Townsend, P. (1957b), p. 179.Google Scholar
Roessler, R., and Greenfield, N. S. (1961). “Incidence of somatic disease in psychiatric patients.” Psychosom. Med., 23, 413–419.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roth, M., and Kay, D. W. K. (1956). “Affective disorders arising in the senium. II. Physical disability as an actiological factor.” J. Ment. Sci., 102, 141–150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sainsbury, P. (1955). Suicide in London. London: Maudsley Monograph, No. 1.Google Scholar
Sainsbury, P. (1962). “Suicide in the middle and later years”, in Medical and Clinical Aspects of Ageing (ed. Blumenthal, H. T.). London.Google Scholar
Townsend, P. (1957a). “The extended family and the state.” 4th Congr. Internat. Assoc. Geront., Merano (Italy).Google Scholar
Townsend, P. (1957b). The Family Life of Old People. London. pp. 166–168.Google Scholar
Townsend, P. (1962). The Last Refuge—A Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales. London, pp. 464–476.Google Scholar
Tschuprow, A. A. (1925). Grundbegriffe und Grundprobleme der Korrelationstheorie. Leipzig. See also: Udny Yule, G., and Kendall, M. G. (1946). An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics. 13th edition. London, pp. 70–71.Google Scholar
Vispo, R. H. (1962). “Pre-morbid personality in the functional psychoses of the senium. A comparison of ex-patients with healthy controls.” J. Ment. Sci., 108, 790–800.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, R. H. (1960). “Changing status, roles and relationships”, in Handbook of Social Gerontology (ed. Tibbitts, C.). Chicago. pp. 261–297.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.